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"When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans."
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"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."
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"Joy is sacred blessing."
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Personal Development

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
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Personal Development

"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"
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"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."
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"Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you."
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"If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil."
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"Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end."
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"If you are angry for one second, it leaves you with only fifty-nine seconds of happiness."
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"Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has many hands, but no heart. Fear has many titles, but no honor. Hate has many forms, but no soul."
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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
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"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"
Drugs

"One of my degrees was a science degree in biology."
Science

"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."
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"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is."
Science

"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
Life

"I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction."
Fiction

"When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans."
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"Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus."
Education

"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
Science
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